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From: Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
	npiggin@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, jschopp@austin.ibm.com,
	arjan@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	mbligh@mbligh.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:12:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070302211207.GJ10643@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E86BA0.50508@redhat.com>

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:23:28PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> With 32 CPUs diving into the page reclaim simultaneously,
> each trying to scan a fraction of memory, this is disastrous
> for performance.  A 256GB system should be even worse.

Thundering herds of a sort pounding the LRU locks from direct reclaim
have set off the NMI oopser for users here.


-- wli

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From: Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
	npiggin@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, jschopp@austin.ibm.com,
	arjan@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	mbligh@mbligh.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:12:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070302211207.GJ10643@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E86BA0.50508@redhat.com>

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:23:28PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> With 32 CPUs diving into the page reclaim simultaneously,
> each trying to scan a fraction of memory, this is disastrous
> for performance.  A 256GB system should be even worse.

Thundering herds of a sort pounding the LRU locks from direct reclaim
have set off the NMI oopser for users here.


-- wli

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Thread overview: 203+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-01 10:12 The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches Mel Gorman
2007-03-01 10:12 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02  0:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  0:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02  1:52     ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-02  1:52       ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-02  3:44       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02  3:44         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02  3:59         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  3:59           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  5:11           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02  5:11             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02  5:50             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-03-02  5:50               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-03-02  6:15               ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-02  6:15                 ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-02 17:01                 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 17:01                   ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 16:20             ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 16:20               ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 17:07               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 17:07                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 17:35                 ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 17:35                   ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 18:02                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 18:02                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 19:02                     ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 19:02                       ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 17:16               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02 17:16                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02 18:45                 ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 18:45                   ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 19:03                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02 19:03                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02 23:58                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-03-02 23:58                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-03-02  4:18         ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-02  4:18           ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-02  5:13         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-02  5:13           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-06  4:16         ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-06  4:16           ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-02 16:58     ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 16:58       ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 17:05     ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-02 17:05       ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-05  3:21       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-05  3:21         ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-05 15:20         ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-05 15:20           ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-05 16:01           ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-05 16:01             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-05 16:45             ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-05 16:45               ` Joel Schopp
2007-05-03  8:49           ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-03  8:49             ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-03-02  1:39   ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-02  1:39     ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-02  2:34   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-03-02  2:34     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-03-02  3:05   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  3:05     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  3:57     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  3:57       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  4:06       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  4:06         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  4:21         ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  4:21           ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  4:31           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  4:31             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  5:06             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  5:06               ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  5:40               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  5:40                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  5:49                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  5:49                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  5:53                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  5:53                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  6:08                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  6:08                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  6:19                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  6:19                         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  6:29                         ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  6:29                           ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  6:51                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  6:51                             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  7:03                             ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  7:03                               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  7:19                             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  7:19                               ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  7:44                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  7:44                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  8:12                                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  8:12                                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  8:21                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  8:21                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  8:38                                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  8:38                                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02 17:09                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 17:09                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-04  1:26                                   ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-04  1:26                                     ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-04  1:51                                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  1:51                                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  1:58                                       ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-04  1:58                                         ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02  5:50               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  5:50                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  4:29         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  4:29           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  4:33           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  4:33             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  4:58             ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  4:58               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  4:20       ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-02  4:20         ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-02 13:50   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-02 13:50     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-02 15:29   ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 15:29     ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 16:58     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 16:58       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 17:09       ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 17:09         ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 17:23       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 17:23         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 17:35         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 17:35           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 17:43           ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 17:43             ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 18:06             ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 18:06               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 18:15               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 18:15                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 18:23                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 18:23                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 18:23                 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 18:23                   ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 19:31                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 19:31                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 19:40                     ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 19:40                       ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 21:12                   ` Bill Irwin [this message]
2007-03-02 21:12                     ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-02 21:19                     ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 21:19                       ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 21:52                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 21:52                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 22:03                         ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 22:03                           ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 22:22                           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 22:22                             ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 22:34                             ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 22:34                               ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 22:51                               ` Martin Bligh
2007-03-02 22:51                                 ` Martin Bligh
2007-03-02 22:54                                 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 22:54                                   ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 23:28                                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-03-02 23:28                                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-03-03  0:24                                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03  0:24                                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 22:52                               ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-02 22:52                                 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-02 22:59                               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 22:59                                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 23:20                                 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 23:20                                   ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-03  1:40                                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03  1:40                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03  1:58                                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03  1:58                                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03  3:55                                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03  3:55                                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-02 23:16                             ` [PATCH] : Optimizes timespec_trunc() Eric Dumazet
2007-03-03  0:33                             ` The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03  0:33                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03  0:54                               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03  0:54                                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03  3:15                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-03  3:15                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-03  4:19                                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03  4:19                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03 17:16                                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-03-03 17:16                                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-03-03 17:50                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-03 17:50                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 20:59               ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-02 20:59                 ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-02 16:32   ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 17:19     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 17:28       ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 17:48         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 17:59           ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-03  4:54     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-03-02  1:52 ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-02  1:52   ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-02 10:38   ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 10:38     ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 16:31     ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-02 16:31       ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-02 21:37       ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-02 21:37         ` Bill Irwin

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